No Oakland march would be, well, an Oakland march without FTP (File Transfer Protocol, for you non-nerds) banners and slogans. If it happens to also be in support of a dead young man killed by a racist vigilante, well, all the better.

Six hundred people left Oscar Grant Plaza at 5:00 PM this evening after a rally in the plaza that began at 4:00 PM. Taking over the streets they marched into West Oakland (home of the 60's Black Panther party), gathering people as the march progressed. It is not implausible that over a thousand people returned to Oscar Grant Plaza as the march ended. Yet the day's activity had not.

Hundreds then decided to block downtown Oakland's main intersection at 14th & Broadway (right off Oscar Grant Plaza), lying down in the street in symbolic affinity to the sprawled corpse of Trayvon. The blockade has continued for some three hours.

Here is the Trayvon's legacy as told in Oakland today in tweets and pictures.

Nothing in Oakland starts on time, and therefore no one shows up on time, but by 4:00 PM, the nominal start of the rally, there were already over 200 people in the Plaza by my count, portending a soon-to-be wall-to-wall people gathering.

For some inexplicable reason five or six OPD marched right along, practically within, the march. I was off to the side once counting marchers and holding a WANTED poster for one of OPD's finest (Miguel Masso, who shot and killed Alan Blueford) and they trod right past me, within a foot or two, right in the middle of the protesters.

Well, all they got for their trouble was listening to such as this for miles:

Protect & serve that's a lie they don't care when black kids die.

"no justice no peace, no racist police"

We r all Trayvon Martin-people respond cheering like the did when we marched back from portshutdown first time pic.twitter.com/hMJtgGYsld